Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a reprinted anecdote about a local judge, two men held at the Adams County jail in Nebraska were taken from the jail by a crowd and hanged from a railroad bridge east of town. The men are not named and no date is given. The anecdote does not say whether jail staff resisted the crowd or handed the men over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An Omaha World-Herald reprint of a local judge's anecdote says a crowd took two men from the Adams County jail and hanged them from a railroad bridge east of town.
Reported by: Omaha World-Herald reprint (reporters).